[Opera].

Accession number: 
PML 32348-49
Author: 
Aristotle.
Published: 
Augsburg : Ambrosius Keller, 1479.
Description: 
[122, 36, 104, 98] leaves ; 32 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1936.
Notes: 

Title from ISTC.
First colophon (leaf ¹[13]/10r): Explicit liber priorum analeticorum Arestotitilis [sic] qui est de resolutione silogismorum i[n] principia sua feliciter. De cuius fine sit laus [et] gloria Christo intemerateq[ue] virgini ac matri ei[us]. Impressus per Ambrosium keller in regia civitate Augusta. Sub anno domini Millesimo quadringentesimo septuagesimonono proxima die post festum Exaltationis sancte Crucis.
Second colophon (leaf ²[4]/9r): Finit liber posteriorum analeticorum secund[us] Arestotilis. [et] ex consequenti tot[us] Impressus per Ambrosium keller in regia civitate Augusta. Anno d[omi]ni [etc] in Lxxix. in die sancti simp[er]ti.
Third colophon (leaf ³[11]/10r): Finit liber octavus [et] ultimus Thopicorum analeticoru[m] arestotilis. Impressus per Ambrosiu[m] keller in regia civitate Augusta Anno ab incarnatione d[omi]ni Millesimo quadringentesimo septuagesimonono. In die sancte Ursule v[ir]ginis. Pro q[uo] fine sit laus [Christ]o.
Fourth colophon (leaf ⁴[12]/10v): Explicit liber octavus [et] ultimus phisicoorum [sic] Arestotilis Impressus per ambrosium keller in rege civitate Augusta. Anno d[omi]ni Millesimo quadringentesimo septuagesimo nono feria secunda ante festum sancti Martini. De quo fine sit laus et gloria omnipotenti deo [etc].
Printed in Keller's type 1:118G.
Collation: I) ¹[1-5¹⁰ 6-7⁶ 8-13¹⁰]: 122 leaves, leaf ¹[1]/1 blank; II) ²[1-2¹⁰ 3⁶ 4¹⁰]: 36 leaves, leaf ²[4]/10 blank; III) ³[1¹⁰ 2-3⁸ 4-9¹⁰ 10⁸ 11¹⁰]: 104 leaves; IV) ⁴[1⁸ (2+1: mentitur, 5+1: principia) 2⁸ 3-4⁶ 5¹⁰ 6⁸ 7¹⁰ 8-9⁶; 10¹⁰ 11⁸ 12¹⁰]: 98 leaves, leaf ⁴[1]/1 blank. PML copy with variant collation than in GW and BMC for Part IV.
Paper format: Chancery folio
In four parts dated: I) 15 September 1479; II) 13 October 1479; III) 21 October 1479; IV) 8 November 1479.
Bearer type on leaves ¹[2]/2r, ¹[8]/10v, ¹[13]/10r, ²[4]/9v,
For detailed contents, see Bod-inc A-385.
Printed woodcut initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: Vol. 1: 30.3 x 20.2 cm, Vol. 2: 30.3 x 20.8 cm.
PML copy of Part IV (Vol. 2) with initial blank (leaf ⁴[1]/1) bound at end(?).

Binding: 
Bound in 2 vols: Vol. 1: Contemporary blind-stamped "half" pigskin over beech boards (32.5 x 21 cm), sewn on 3 supports in Ingolstadt by Jerg Wirffel (EBDB w000052/Kyriss 69, also known as the Jerg Wirffel Nachfolger, the workshop of Löwe II and Vierblatt I, active 1467-89); repaired by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and rear fly leaf. 2 clasps, wanting, with brass catch plates stamped "ave". Vol. 2: 16th-century blind-rolled "half" pigskin over beech boards (31.5 x 21 cm), sewn on 4 supports; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands. 2 catches, 1 wanting, with stamped brass arrowhead catch plates; 2 of the original 4 catches wanting.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Vol 1: Rubricated, red lombards, marginal section titles, underlining, and highlighting on woodcut initials; capital strokes only on first text leaf. Vol. 2: Rubricated, red lombards and capital strokes. Annotations: Vol. 1: Heavily annotated in 15th-/16th-century hand. Manuscript numeric quire notation in bottom right corner of first folios, mostly trimmed. Vol. 2: Manuscript alphanumeric quire signature at bottom right edge of text block. Heavily annotated in a couple of 16th-century hands. Later (19th century?) notes in bottom margin with names for plants in other languages.

Provenance: 
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Jan. 1936.
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